Languages for servers (Go, D, and more)

[Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 July 2014 at 19:46:40 UTC, Remo wrote:
> On Friday, 4 July 2014 at 16:16:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> With @nogc and the -vgc compiler switch, I think it would 
>> fairly easy now to do C-style memory management and know that 
>> there are no hidden GC allocations in your program. Whether 
>> you would want to do this in D is another story.
>
>
> Who want to use C-style memory management today ?

Lots of interesting programs and libraries are written 
specifically in C, not C++, even today. But, as others have 
pointed out, you can use RAII in D and as time goes on even more 
advanced memory management libraries will become available.

But my point was merely that D is somewhat hamstrung by virtue of 
being a garbage collected language with a not so great GC, and 
some complexities around not using it. Not an insurmountable 
problem if you're committed to using D, but when you are making a 
decision about what to use, it is a factor. For writing various 
server programs, if you want to work with a GC'ed, compiled to 
native code language, Go may be a much better choice than D right 
now.

This is a problem with being such a wide spectrum language: D has 
to compete with high level GC'ed languages and will also need to 
compete with low level languages without GCs. That's a tough row 
to hoe!